Unemployment still remains a major issue in as far as National Security is concerned, but sadly there are no statistics to pinpoint accurately how this rate has grown.
The National Research Institute Council Chair, Wilson Thompson in his opening remarks at the National Security Seminar this week, said about 30, 000 to 40, 000 school leavers come out of the education system and that’s just from secondary schools these figures represent.
“That’s from Grade 10 and 12. What about the university’s that are graduating, where are these people going?”
Thompson reiterated that this is a serious problem that needs to be seriously dealt with.
He said the country must be able to create employment opportunities through job creation because this is an area that needs to be addressed in terms of national security.
Furthermore Thompson stated that there is so many issues between the space of National Security and this is just one highlighted.
“When we developed the National Security Policy, we did not for-see that information would come in different shapes and forms.”
He added that this is a learning curve for the country.